Well today I actually started breaking down the 9 computers that I had in my closet and garage. My wife is actually very happy about this since I have freed up some room. Today after working in the yard and doing my honey do list I sat down with a few hours before my kids baseball game. I really wanted to see how fast I could break these down to see how this was going to work as a part timer. This is what I ended up with after about 2 hours while watching TV.
I've been reading the forum a lot since yesterday and all I gathered in this picture was the stuff that was easy to deal with. I have to refine my collection and sorting process and go get some bigger bins and tubs to put stuff in. Right now I have a bigger rubbermaid tub that has power supplies, wire, and other misc junk that I need to sort out later into other sections.
I dont have a good location yet to put all the aluminum heat sinks, DVD Drive, Hard Drives, and floppies but I'm working on that. All in all I think this is something I can do in my spare time. I reached out to a few friends to look at their work place and see if they have any old equipment. I do have to develop a decent process for erasing hard drives because some of my customers have sensitive info on them and I dont want to pass out drive with SSN and stuff on them.
I have to go onsite to a customers work on Monday so I'm going to load up what I can at their place and bring it home to process this week. I'm hoping within a week or two I will have enough to send off. I've never been to the scrapyard so once I clean my junk hauler truck bed out Im going to start putting the computer cases in it and plan on a trip up there. Another weird thing though was as I was telling a friend about this at the ballpark today I ended up with 2 pool pump motors for scrap and possibly an old washer and dryer so this might end up being slightly more than just escrap.
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